Deuteronomy 6:14
Ye shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the people which are round about you;
KJV
Non ibitis post deos alienos cunctarum gentium, quæ in circuitu vestro sunt :
Vulgate
οὐ πορεύεσθε ὀπίσω θεῶν ἑτέρων ἀπὸ τῶν ἐθνῶν τῶν περικύκλῳ ὑμῶν,
LXX
Ye shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the peoples that are round about you;
ASV
לֹ֣א תֵֽלְכ֔וּ/ן אַחֲרֵ֖י אֱלֹהִ֣ים אֲחֵרִ֑ים מֵ/אֱלֹהֵי֙ הָֽ/עַמִּ֔ים אֲשֶׁ֖ר סְבִיבוֹתֵי/כֶֽם
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
8 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
אֲחֵרִ֔ים
'chrym
adjective · 166×
אֲשֶׁר
'shr
particle · 5461×
ו
v
noun · 717×
י
y
noun · 1849×
יֵּ֥לֶךְ
ylk
verb · 1038×
ךָ
k
noun · 2564×
לֹ֣א
l'
proper_noun · 5171×
סָבִֽיב
sbyb
noun · 334×
Themes
Historic Christian voices
3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
§2084God makes himself known by recalling his all-powerful loving, and liberating action in the history of the one he addresses: "I brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage." the first word contains the first commandment of the Law: "You shall fear the LORD your God; you shall serve him.... You shall not go after other gods."5 God's first call and just deman…
Cross-references
- 1John 5:21 — Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen.
- 2Cor 6:16 — And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my p
- Deut 8:19 — And it shall be, if thou do at all forget the LORD thy God, and walk after other gods, and serve them, and worship them, I testify against you this day that ye shall surely perish.
- Deut 11:28 — And a curse, if ye will not obey the commandments of the LORD your God, but turn aside out of the way which I command you this day, to go after other gods, which ye have not known.
- Deut 13:7 — Namely, of the gods of the people which are round about you, nigh unto thee, or far off from thee, from the one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth;
- Exod 20:3 — Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
- Gen 35:2 — Then Jacob said unto his household, and to all that were with him, Put away the strange gods that are among you, and be clean, and change your garments:
- Jer 7:6 — If ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt:
- Jer 25:6 — And go not after other gods to serve them, and to worship them, and provoke me not to anger with the works of your hands; and I will do you no hurt.
- Jer 25:6 — And go not after other gods to serve them, and to worship them, and provoke me not to anger with the works of your hands; and I will do you no hurt.
- Judg 2:12 — And they forsook the LORD God of their fathers, which brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, of the gods of the people that were round about them, and bowed themselves unto th
- Ps 44:20 — If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god;
- Ps 81:9 — There shall no strange god be in thee; neither shalt thou worship any strange god.